Black communists saw allies in the party while Garvey favored Moscow

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In the Party, Briggs, Moore, Haywood, Otto Hall, Fort-Whiteman, and others found a complementary radical element and a potential international ally for the struggle against colonialism and world capital. Within the UNIA, Garvey for one, felt much more sympathy for the Russian Communists than for the Brotherhood and its American Communist colleagues. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1027